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Step by Step Wireless Request

I have no idea why my wireless card is not working. Ive got an orinoco classic gold. I have had, so far today, 4 different operating systems on my laptop. The card works under windows. The card sort of works under the knoppix-std liveCD. The card almost works under slackware. The card does not work under fedora core 3. So far I have come the closest to getting it to work on Knoppix-STD. Here is what I have done to attempt to get it to work:

On Knoppix-STD:
1. Knoppix automatically configures the card, and loads the drivers.
2. I use iwconfig to set my essid and wep key.
3. I use "ifconfig eth0 up" to start my card. Its LED turns on.
4. I attempt to use the internet, but nothing happens. I am currently using DHCP on my wireless router. It works fine under windows.

At this point, I can run kismet and it detects my wireless network. However, if I associate with my AP, it will not allow me to get online. Are there ANY other commands at all that I need in order to use the internet?

After you run ifconfig eth0 up run just ifconfig by itself and post the output here. It sounds like you are getting connected to your AP, but I am wondering if you are getting an IP, DNS addresss, and all the goodies from dhcp.

Quote:

I already did, and Im not getting assigned an IP. iwconfig tells me the mac address of my router, my essid, and my wep key, but ifconfig does not give me an IP address. This is my problem, but Im not sure how to get one. My router is set up for DHCP, and so is my card.

Here is a whole lot of info from ifconfig, iwconfig, dmesg, and lsmod:

iwconfig:

Code:

eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"coralliswireless"  Nickname:"slacklap"

          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437GHz  Access Point: 00:0F:66:40:2B:F6  

          Bit Rate:11Mb/s  Tx-Power=15 dBm  Sensitivity:1/3  

          Retry limit:4  RTS thr:off  Fragment thr:off

          Encryption key:off

          Power Management:off

          Link Quality:35/92  Signal level:-61 dBm  Noise level:-96 dBm

          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0

          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0  Missed beacon:0

ifconfig:

Code:

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:01:F4:ED:3D:2F  

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 

          RX bytes:3624 (3.5 Kb)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

          Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100 



lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  

          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

          RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 

          RX bytes:1256 (1.2 Kb)  TX bytes:1256 (1.2 Kb)

dmesg:

Code:

orinoco.c 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)

orinoco_cs.c 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)

eth1: Station identity 001f:0001:0008:0048

eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 8.72

eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported

eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported

eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key

eth1: MAC address 00:01:F4:ED:3D:2F

eth1: Station name "HERMES I"

eth1: ready

eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f

eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)

orinoco_lock() called with hw_unavailable (dev=d5dd4800)

cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.

cs: IO port probe 0x0820-0x08ff: excluding 0x8c0-0x8e7

cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x080f: clean.

cs: IO port probe 0x03e0-0x04ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7

cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x03af: clean.

cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.

orinoco.c 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)

orinoco_cs.c 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)

eth1: Station identity 001f:0001:0008:0048

eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 8.72

eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported

eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported

eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key

eth1: MAC address 00:01:F4:ED:3D:2F

eth1: Station name "HERMES I"

eth1: ready

eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f

eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)

eth1: New link status: Disconnected (0002)

lsmod:

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by

orinoco_cs              7816  1 

orinoco                44236  1 orinoco_cs

hermes                  8064  2 orinoco_cs,orinoco

snd_pcm_oss            51496  0 

snd_mixer_oss          18752  1 snd_pcm_oss

snd_intel8x0          31560  0 

snd_ac97_codec        68164  1 snd_intel8x0

snd_pcm                91204  2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0

snd_timer              23812  1 snd_pcm

snd_page_alloc          9736  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

snd_mpu401_uart        7040  1 snd_intel8x0

snd_rawmidi            21796  1 snd_mpu401_uart

snd_seq_device          7304  1 snd_rawmidi

snd                    51428  9 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device

tg3                    84484  0 

ds                    14788  5 orinoco_cs

yenta_socket          19264  2 

pcmcia_core            62340  3 orinoco_cs,ds,yenta_socket

Any ideas?

Not sure if this will help, but I got about that far with my wireless and Hangdog42 told me to then run dhcpcd eth1 and that got it going for me.

mark

running dhcpcd eth1 just hangs for about 3 minutes then shuts down my wireless card :(

I have never heard of that problem with dhcp before. ou may want to check your system log to see if any useful errors are coming out. I would also try to assign a static address to see if you are able to talk to your ap. I am not in front of a linux box but it should look something like:

ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
then add your router as the default gw
route add default gw 192.168.1.1
and then try to ping your router
ping 192.168.1.1

I am assuing your router uses 192.168.1.x and your router has an address of 192.168.1.1, so you may ned to change some things.